Periodicals

• Baharudin, Hariz. 2018. “Rise of the Machines.” The Straits Times, November 7.
• Snow, Jackie. 2018. “An A.I. Glossary.” The New York Times, October 18.
• Weindling, Jacob. 2018. “10 Harrowing Examples from a New Report on How Artificial Intelligence Will Take Over the World.” Paste Magazine, February 26.

 

AI and Human Decision-Making / Control

• Ambrosino, Brandon. 2018. “What Would it Mean for AI to Have a Soul?” BBC, June 18.
• Clark, Andy. 2018. “We are Merging with Robots. That’s a Good Thing.” The New York Times, August 13.
• Dastin, Jeffrey. 2018. “‘Kill your Foster Parents’: Amazon’s Alexa Talks Murder, Sex in AI Experiment.” Reuters, December 21.
• Eveleth, Rose. 2015. “‘My Robot Bought Illegal Drugs.’” BBC, July 21.
• Finn, Ed. 2018. “A Smarter Way to Think About Intelligent Machines.” The New York Times, November 15.
• Goertzel, Ben. 2011. “Does Humanity Need an AI Nanny?” Humanity+ Magazine, August 17.
• Johnson, Steven. “The Human Brain is a Time Traveler.” The New York Times, November 15.
• Marcus, Gary and Ernest Davis. 2018. “A.I. is Harder than you Think.” The New York Times, May 18.
• Metz, Cade. 2018. “Efforts to Acknowledge the Risks of New A.I. Technology.” The New York Times, October 22.
• Pande, Vijay. 2018. “Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Black Box’ is Nothing to Fear.” The New York Times, January 25.
• Robson, David. 2015. “The People ‘Possessed’ by Computers.” BBC, July 20.

 

AI and Human Intimacy

• Alasaarela, Mikko. 2017. “The Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI.” Medium, October 8.
• Alasaarela, Mikko. 2017. “The Human API.” Medium, October 16.
• Castellano, Orge. 2018. “The Future of Love: Robot Sex and AI Relationships.” Medium, April 3.
• Dormehl, Luke. 2017. “ElliQ is Like an Amazon Echo Robot Designed to Keep Seniors Company.” Digital Trends, January 12.  
• Joshi, Naveen. 2018. “Humans vs. AI: Who is Better at Building Relationships?” BBN Times, March 9.
• Metz, Rachel. 2018. “Google Demos Duplex, its AI that Sounds Exactly like a Very Weird, Nice Human.” MIT Technology Review, June 27.
• Mulligan, Gabriella. 2017. “Is Robotics a Solution to the Growing Needs of the Elderly?” BBC News, March 17.
• Opray, Mark. 2017. “Robots May Change the Sex Industry but Could They Replace Intimacy?” The Guardian, April 5.
• Reben, Alexander. 2015. “How Robots Mess with Our Minds.” BBC, July 15.
• Turkle, Sherry. 2018. “There will Never be an Age of Artificial Intimacy.” The New York Times, August 11.
• Wetzel, Randall. 2018. “Is it Ethical to let Patients Develop Relationships with Robots?” AIMed, December 7.

 

AI and Human Creativity

• Cohn, Gabe. 2018. “AI Art at Christie’s Sells for $432,500.” The New York Times, October 25.
• Marshall, Alex. 2018. “A Robot Walks into a Bar. But Can it do Comedy?” The New York Times, August 8.
• Mitchell, Melanie. 2018. “Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning.” The New York Times, November 5.
• Streitfeld, David. 2018. “Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists.” The New York Times, October 18.
• Strogatz, Steven. 2018. “One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine.” The New York Times, December 26.

 

AI and Human Mobility / Cities

• Bershidsky, Leonid. 2018. “AI Competition is the New Space Race.” Bloomberg, December 28.
• Bown, Alfie. 2018. “Is the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma using AI to create dystopian cities?” The Guardian, November 28.
• Burgess, Matt. 2018. “Is AI the New Electricity?” The Guardian, November 12.
• Rawes, Erika. 2018. “Amazon Echo vs. Echo Plus: Which Should You Get?” Digital Trends, November 26.
• Romero, Simon. 2018. “Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars.” The New York Times, December 31.

 

AI and Healthcare

• Mohr, Catherine, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Regina Barzilay, George Church and Jennifer Egan. 2018. “From Gene Editing to A.I.: How will Technology Transform Humanity.” The New York Times, November 16.
• Heaven, Douglas. 2018. “Your Next Doctor’s Appointment Might be with an AI.” MIT Technology Review, October 16.
• Mukherjee, Siddhartha. 2017. “A.I. Versus M.D.” The New Yorker, April 3.
• Newman, Judith. 2014. “To Siri, With Love.” The New York Times, October 17.
• Tufekci, Zeynep. 2018. “Data-Driven Medicine will Help People – But can it do so Equally?” The New York Times, November 15.

 

AI and Inequality: Employment and Discrimination

• Buolamwini, Joy. 2018. “When the Robot Doesn’t See Dark Skin.” The New York Times, June 21.
• Burgess, Matt. 2018. “Five Future-Proof Jobs for the Era of Automation, the Cloud and AI.” The Guardian, November 12.
• Chua, Alfred. 2019. “The Big Read: Rise of the Machine — How Technology is Disrupting Singapore’s Law Firms.” Channel News Asia, January 21.
• de Freytas-Tamura, Kimiko. 2018. “What’s Next for Humanity: Automation, New Morality and a ‘Global Useless Class.’” The New York Times, March 19.
• Holley, Peter. 2018. “Want to Work for Ikea? Your Next Job Interview Could be Conducted by a Russian Robot.” The Washington Post, April 25.
• Kaufman, David. 2018. “Watch Out Workers, Algorithms Are Coming to Replace You — Maybe.” The New York Times, October 18.
• Lohr, Steve. 2018. “‘The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes into the Workplace.” The New York Times, August 5.
• Lohr, Steve. 2018. “From Agriculture to Art – the A.I. Wave Sweeps In.” The New York Times, October 21.
• Mason, Elisabeth A. 2018. “A.I. and Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty.” The New York Times, January 1.
• Office of Science and Technology Policy. 2018. “White House Hosts Summit on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry.” The White House, May 10.
• Rosenblat, Alex. 2018. “When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm.” The New York Times, October 12.
• Statt, Nick. 2018. “The AI Boom is Happening All Over the World, and it’s Accelerating Quickly.” The Verge, December 12.
• Tan, Aaron. 2018. “Singapore Broadens Access to AI Skills.” ComputerWeekly.com, August 30.
• Thompson, Clive. 2018. “May A.I. Help You?” The New York Times, November 14.
• Verghese, Abraham. 2018. “How Tech can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers.” The New York Times, May 16.

 

AI and News / (Dis)Information / Fake News in a “Post-Truth” World

• Marcus, Gary and Ernest Davis. 2018. “No, A.I. won’t Solve the Fake News Problem.” The New York Times, October 20.
• Metz, Cade. 2018. “How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars?” The New York Times, November 19.

 

“Digital Dictatorships:” Surveillance / “Predictive Policing”

• 2019. The Guardian View on Crime and Algorithms: Big Data Makes Bigger Problems. The Guardian, February 4.
• Elliot, Larry. George Soros: China is Using Tech Advances to Repress its People. The Guardian, January 24.
• Kwang, Kevin. 2017. “National Digital Identity System to be Cornerstone of Singapore’s Smart Nation vision.” Channel News Asia, August 20.
• Mozur, Paul. 2018. “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras.” The New York Times, July 9.
• Shaban, Hamza. 2018. “Facial Recognition Cameras in China Snag Man who Allegedly Stole $17,000 Worth of Potatoes.” The Washington Post, May 22.

 

Weaponization of AI: Autonomous Weapons, Killer Machines, AI Arms Race

• Atherton, Kelsey D. 2018. “Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons.” The New York Times, November 15.
• Metz, Cade. 2018. “Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots.” The New York Times, June 9.
• Parkin, Simon. 2015. “Killer Robots: The Soldiers that Never Sleeps.” BBC, July 16.

 

AI and Ethics

• Ark, Tom Vander. 2018. “Let’s Talk About AI Ethics; We’re On A Deadline.” Forbes, September 13.
• Bloom, Paul and Sam Harris. 2018. “It’s Westworld. What’s Wrong with Cruelty to Robots?” The New York Times, April 23.
• Bromwich, Jonah Engel. 2019. “Why Do We Hurt Robots?” The New York Times, January 19.
• Chen, Alvin and Stella Chen. 2018. “Disruptive Legal Technologies – Is Ethics Catching Up?” Law Gazette, August.
• Hardoon, David R. 2018. “Should AI be Held to a Higher Ethical Standard than Humans?” The Straits Times, December 14.
• Harris, Mark. 2017. “Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence.” WIRED, November 11.
• Hempel, Jessi. 2018. “Fei-Fei Li’s Quest to Make AI Better for Humanity.” WIRED, November 13.
• Knight, Will. 2015. “What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?” MIT Technology Review, December 15.
• Knight, Will. 2016. “Tech Titans Join Forces to Stop AI from Behaving Badly.” MIT Technology Review, September 28.
• Latiff, Robert H. 2018. “Rebooting the Ethical Soldier.” The New York Times, July 16.
• Li, Fei-Fei. 2018. “How to Make A.I. That’s Good for People.” The New York Times, March 7.
• Lohr, Steve. 2018. “Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some Experts Hope So.” The New York Times, June 20.
• Satell, Greg. 2016. “Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong.” Harvard Business Review, November 15.
• Selinger, Evan and Woodrow Hartzog. 2015. “The Dangers of Trusting Robots.” BBC, August 12.
• Simonite, Tom. 2017. “Tech Giants Grapple with the Ethical Concerns Raised by the AI Boom.” MIT Technology Review, March 30.